Toffle Towers: designing the cover

Ever wanted to know how a children’s book illustrator designs a book cover?

To celebrate the upcoming release of Toffle Towers book 3, I’ve prepped a bunch of behind-the-scenes blog posts. I’ll show you how I designed the characters; how I designed the hotel’s interior and exterior; and how I designed other elements like the shuttle bus and the title typography. But today, I’m showing you how I designed the cover for book 1 in the series.

I started off by sketching a few ideas the publishers and I had.

   Then we tried another bunch of options … I expanded those last two to have the hotel wrap around the back cover.

We narrowed it down to that last option, then started trying out some colours …

… and after a few more edits to the design, I got started on the final version – giving us the cover below!

You can check out more behind-the-scenes blog posts for Toffle Towers here.

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Toffle Towers 3: Order in the Court

Pre-order now:
– Booktopia (Australia/NZ only)
– Dymocks
– QBD (Australia only)
– Readings
– Angus & Robertson (Australia only)
– Book Depository

Toffle Towers 2: The Great River Race

Buy online
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– Dymocks
– QBD (Australia only)
– Readings
– Angus & Robertson (Australia only)

Toffle Towers 1: Fully Booked

Buy online
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– Kinokuniya (Australia only)
– Dymocks
– QBD (Australia only)
– Readings
– Angus & Robertson (Australia only)